Doonwood

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonwood, from 1,314 m² to 448,919 m² (44.89 ha, 110.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonwood in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660064

• 24 May 2022N/a

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 217.77sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22668

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonwood.

Recorded monuments

• GA045-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Within Doon Wood, from which the td. derives its name. Overgrown almost circular rath (D 35.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Well-defined entrance causeway (Wth 6m) at SE. Within NE sector of interior is a rectangular hollow (L 8.7m), running NNE-SSW, possibly a souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-017001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonwood.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonwood.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Doonwood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Doonwood · Coill an Dúin

Area

1,329,374 m² (132.94 ha, 328.5 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscobe, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Bellew electoral division: 1,972 people in 701 households; 80% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymageraghty, Castlebellew, Cloverfield, Corgerry Eighter, Eskerroe, Graigue, Lismoyle, Shankill

Placenames

Doonwood on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.